Rebellion - Shakespeare's MacBeth: A Tragedy In Steel (2002)

Rebellion was formed by former Grave Digger members Uwe Lulis and Tomi Göttlich, guitarist and bassist respectively, and for their debut they decided to tackle Shakespeare's "MacBeth", giving us driving metal songs intertwined by various spoken passages, both narration and characters from the play.
This is pretty tough to get through, especially as over seventy minutes.  The music is powerful at times, although it doesn't leap out at the listener as anything instantly melodious, and how much you appreciate the subject matter depends on whether you are much into the Bard. I never have been a fan, personally - I can remember studying "MacBeth" at high school, although what about it I studied I can't quite recall. But I never was a very good student.
Anyway, this has good moments, and is a valiant attempt at something grand, but it is a bit of an overlong slog, so quite a bit of patience and devotion to the cause is required.

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